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In Reply to: "Cape Fear" (remake) posted by rico on September 08, 2004 at 08:22:30:
In the original, the girl is innocent in a 1950s kinda way. In the remake, she is a self-centered wannabe trollop. In the original, I cared what happened to her and wanted her saved. In the remake, I cared what happened to her but did not want her saved. Tortured and burned at the stake come to mind.Finally, as others have pointed out, there was a quiet menace to Mitchum's bad guys that no one else seems to have, then or now.
Follow Ups:
IMO, Mitchum has a more natural, stealthy menace in his portrayal of
Cady than DeNiro, whose role is more contrived.
As for Lori Martin, who is 50ish innocent as you say, and seems to
be younger than Lewis' character in the remake. Dramatic contrast
tween Martin and Mitchum seems greater than twixt Lewis and DeNiro.
Look at the chilling suspenseful scene in the original where the
young girl sits alone in car waiting for mom, Cady approaches, she
panics and flees into bldg....
To me, the original is more suspenseful, while the remake is more
shocking. As I said, I like both,but prefer the original, much as
I prefer The Thing From Another World's suspense over The Thing
remake's greater shock effects. Just my preferences. ~ AH
My sentiments exactly. I thinki I'll give the original a look see.
(nt)
Huh?More like a real naive teenager wrestling with and being exploited through her burgeoning sexuality and independence. How anyone can care for 50s manikin screen-child over Lewis' more authentic and realistically fallible portrayal is beyond me. "Tortured and burned at the stake"? What the hell?
but as Mitchum says (in the laziest and most unnerving way possible):
"Mmmmmm...gettin' juicy!"The original doesn't have to be as overworked and overheated as the Scorcese version...it has Mitchum, and that's more than enough!
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